Combination shelf bracket and garment hanger rack



April 26,193". A. L. STOWELL COMBINATION SHELF BRACKET AND GARMENT HANGER RACK Filed Aug. 26, 1929 gnoe'nto'o Audi/2 L. Owl/veil kls 61 N01 new Patented Apr. 26, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE AUSTIN L. STOWELL, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE. STANLEY WORKS, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT COMBINATION SHELF BRACKET AND GARMENT HANGER RACK Application filed August 26, 1929. Serial No. 388,450.

This invention relates to a device whichserves the twofold purpose of a bracket for supporting a shelf and a rack for receiving coat hangers and the like. My improved de vices may be used to advantage in hallways, closets, back of doors and similar places where it is desired to deposit hats and headgear and to hang up garments, such as coats or the like. They may be used to replace the conventional coat trees, the capacity of which is very limited considering their bulkiness.

The aim of the present invention is to provide a combination shelf bracket and garment hanger rack which is very simple in construction, which may be economically made,

which is neat and pleasing in appearance, and which will effectively serve the functions for which it is made.

As the garment rack is fixed to and forms a part of the shelf bracket, the combination device may be readily secured in place and it does not take up any more room than does the bracket itself. The necessity of securing separate brackets in place and separately putting up coat hooks or the like is avoided.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out more in detail hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth and the scope of the applicatlon of which will be indicated in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown one of the many embodiments which the present invention may take:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pair of brackets secured in position against a wall and supporting a shelf;

Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the brackets with a portion broken away to show the manner in which the garment rack is secured to the bracket; and

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings in detail, each device is shown as including a bracket designated generally by the letter A, and a hanger rack designated generally by the letter B. The bracket is in the form of a right angular shaped member preferably formed of sheet metal by stamping out a blank to the desired configuration and then bending the blank to the shape illustrated. The bracket has a horizontal leg adapted to support a shelf such as the board or shelf C. The bracket has a vertical leg which is adapted to abut against and to be secured to a wall, partition, door or the like,the wall being diagrammatically shown in Fig. 2 and being designated by the letter D. The bracket has a rib or corrugation 10 for the purpose of adding strength, this rib being preferably tapered or inclined down from the angle of the bracket towards the lower end of the vertical leg and the outer end of the horizontal leg.

The hanger rack is preferably in the form of around rod of steel or the like and has a vertical leg 11, the upper end of which is connected to the horizontal leg of the bracket ad- Jacent the outer end thereof. The hanger rack has a horizontal leg 12, the rear end of which is connected to the vertical leg of thebracket between the ends thereof. For the purpose of securing the ends of the right angled rod B to the bracket, the rib of the latter is provided with oblong openings 13. The ends '14 of the rod are flattened to a shape corresponding to that of the openings. After the ends 14 have been inserted into the openings 13, they are headed or peened over so as to hold the rod in place.

The manner in which my improved devices are employed is clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The brackets A are secured to the wall in the usual manner and then the shelf C is positioned upon the brackets and secured in place. The brackets may be secured to the wall and the shelf may be secured to the brackets in any suitable manner, as by means of screws 15. The horizontal leg 12 of the rod B is adapted to receive the hooks of coat hangers, as shown in Fig. 1. Hats may be positioned upon the shelf and clothes, such as coats, are hun upon the hangers.

It will be 0 served that my improved devices are made to serve the two-fold function of a shelf support and garment rack with but i very little additional expense over What it would cost to install the usual shelf brackets Without the racks. The racks are so positioned that the coat hangers are readily ac- 5 cessible and may be easily taken off of and placed onto the rack.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently Widely diflerent embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scopethereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the. above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the lan- V guage used in? the following claim is intended tocover all of' the generic and specific features of the invention herein described 2 and all statementsof the scope of theinvention which as a matter of language, might be said. to fall therebetween I- claim as my invention:

In a combination shelf bracket and garment: hangerrack, a right angled bracket 7 having a vertical leg adaptedto be secured to a vertical surface and a horizontal leg 4 adaptedto support a shelf, said legs having openings, anda garment hanger rod bent at right angles and; having a vertical leg and a; horizontalleg; respectively parallel to said leg of said; bracket, the: ends of said rod being received by said. openings and being headed to secure the same in place.

AUSTIN Lt STOWELL. 

